Prompted by the #YesAllWomen hashtag, a pro-women response to the misogynist element of the recent Isla Vista murders, Mira Schor recently hosted a Facebook conversation about feminism and misogyny in the arts. “…[I]n my experience as a feminist artist and educator practically no men ever feel that the incredibly rich body of artwork, literature and discussion by women specifically in the period of second wave feminism of the past fifty or sixty years (as well as in the hundreds of years before) is necessary for them to study and learn from,” she writes. Her last two posts had been about Ana Mendieta’s murder. [A Year of Positive Thinking]

“But that does not mean that every single essay about your work has to say that everything looks like vaginas.” Well, that happens when you’re Judy Chicago. [Big Red & Shiny]

A review of performance and video artist Mike Smith’s first solo show in the UK: “ In the States, Mike is an Everyman, but in the UK, Mike is every American…As an expat, it’s painful to watch.” [Glasstire]

The Modern Language Association releases its recommendations for PhD reform in the Humanities. What tops their list? Shorten degree programs to five years, and prepare students for careers outside of the teaching field. [Inside Higher Ed]

Another diatribe about how people don’t stop to read or experience anything on the Internet; the best remedy is keepshaming, we guess. [New York Times]

How can the book industry solve the problem of lagging print sales? Some are hedging their bets on BookCon, which opens this weekend at the Javits Center. It’s organized by the founders of Comic Con. [Vulture]

Time Warner Cable News, of Winston-Salem, NC, reports that Maya Angelou has been found dead in her home. [TWCNews]

All this week, the Art Market Monitor has been churning out doomsday scenarios for the collectoratti. The Italian art market is dying, and “Sadly, The Picasso Ceramics Market Isn’t For the Entry-Level Collector Anymore.” [The Art Market Monitor]

This week at artnet Paddy Johnson interviews Nicholas O’Brien, a co-curator of the exhibition The New Romantics, currently on view at Eyebeam. [artnet news]

The broken down World’s Fair towers in Flushing Meadows now have National Treasure status. There’s even talk of fixing them up! [New York Times]

New York Magazine features a whole bunch of Internet celebrities, and that’s gotta be a boon for their site. We only knew a couple of them, but Eckhaus Latta got a shoutout from Mike the Ruler. [New York Magazine]

100 new emojis on Vine. The only way you can see any of them is to pause the video. Nicely done! [Vine]

Peter Schjeldahl, with his tender prose and passionate research, is hard to leave, but it’s finally time to walk away. Enough with the MoMA and Guggenheim retrospectives! [The New Yorker]

For whatever reason, Roberta Smith ended up reviewing James Franco’s exhibition at Pace. She’s written about the actor-artist a lot. Thankfully, with this exhibition, she shows no mercy. Franco, she writes, seems informed by “confused desperation” and an “entitled narcissism.” She ends her piece with a death knell: “It’s hard not to feel some sympathy for him, while also wishing that someone or something would make him stop.” This is what we’ve all been thinking—that he needs to stop—and now she should never write about him again! [The New York Times]

Start-ups beware of the Red Herring Award. The company informs nominees of their opportunity and then charges them $3,820 for the privilege. This article was written in 2013, but as the awards are coming up again, it seemed a good time to issue the reminder that this resembles a scheme. [TechCrunch]

Judy Chicago is celebrating her 75th birthday with an exhibition at the Brooklyn Museum. During the press preview, she tells Village Voice reporter Lilly Lampe about her first meeting with critic Harold Rosenberg. “She brought her slides; he brought a hard-on.” [The Village Voice]

A quiz to end all Buzzfeed quizzes: the New Inquiry’s darkly sarcastic “What briefcase full of money are you?” [New Inquiry]

We’ve already got a big fat bonerang for Michael Mahalchick, creator of Official Art F City Judy Chicago Wiener. So imagine our joy when we heard that we’ll get to see even more of him today at NADA! This morning, we received a dispatch from our editor Paddy Johnson, with cryptic but very tantalizing details about some sort of stripper-themed performance that’s going down at 4:30pm, for one hour only.